PERIJOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perijove mean? 

• PERIJOVE (noun)
  The noun PERIJOVE has 1 sense:

1. periapsis in orbit around Jupiter

  Familiarity information: PERIJOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIJOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Periapsis in orbit around Jupiter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("perijove" is a kind of...):

periapsis; point of periapsis ((astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited)

Antonym:

apojove (apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter)

 Context examples 

At the time of perijove, Juno was about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Juno reached perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's center) on July 10 at 6:55 p.m. PDT (9:55 p.m. EDT).

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)